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General question: when switching payment processors, is there some way of taking all those pre-authorized card details with you? Or is the only way to re-prompt all customers for their card details again?

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No, this is called merchant tokenisation (the token only works with that specific processor and that merchant) so you generally can't transfer over pre-auths unless you actually hold the auth code and card details yourself.

Sure you can. Stripe explicitly support this:

https://stripe.com/docs/security/data-migrations/exports

However, the card details don't go to you. They'll transfer the card details to another PCI compliant payment processor.

Thanks for linking this, will come in handy.

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